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Skeptical Science New Research for Week #35, 2021

Posted on 2 September 2021 by Doug Bostrom

124 articles by 744 contributing authors

Physical science of climate change, effects

Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes
Li et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
10.1038/s43017-021-00204-5

Interpreting the Dependence of Cloud-Radiative Adjustment on Forcing Agent
Salvi et al. Geophysical Research Letters
Open Access 10.1029/2021gl093616

Observations of climate change, effects

The “Hockey Stick” imprint in Northwest African speleothems
Sha et al. Geophysical Research Letters
10.1029/2021gl094232

Toward an ice-free mountain range: demise of Pyrenean glaciers during 2011–2020
Vidaller et al. Geophysical Research Letters
10.1029/2021gl094339

Rapid rises in the magnitude and risk of extreme regional heat wave events in China
Wang & Yan Weather and Climate Extremes
Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100379

A Comparison of the Variability and Changes in Global Ocean Heat Content from Multiple Objective Analysis Products during the Argo Period
Liang et al. Journal of Climate
10.1175/jcli-d-20-0794.1

(provisional link) Novel and disappearing climates in the global surface ocean from 1800 to 2100
10.1038/s41598-021-94872-4

Extreme climatic characteristics near the coastline of the southeast region of Brazil in the last 40 years
de Oliveira et al. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Open Access 10.1007/s00704-021-03711-z

The South Pacific Pressure Trend Dipole and the Southern Blob
Garreaud et al. Journal of Climate
10.1175/jcli-d-20-0886.1

Trends in soil temperature in the Icelandic highlands from 1977–2019
Petersen International Journal of Climatology
10.1002/joc.7366

Observed and estimated consequences of climate change for the fire weather regime in the moist-temperate climate of the Czech Republic
Trnka et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108583

Comprehensive observational features for the Kuroshio transport decreasing trend during a recent global warming hiatus
Liu et al. Geophysical Research Letters
10.1029/2021gl094169

Recurrent pattern of extreme fire weather in California
Son et al. Environmental Research Letters
Open Access 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1f44

Instrumentation & observational methods of climate change, effects

Continuous evaluation of the spatial representativeness of land surface temperature validation sites
Ma et al. Remote Sensing of Environment
10.1016/j.rse.2021.112669

Optimal interpolation of global dissolved oxygen: 1965–2015
Ito Geoscience Data Journal
Open Access pdf 10.1002/gdj3.130

Earth's albedo 1998-2017 as measured from earthshine
Goode et al. Geophysical Research Letters
10.1029/2021gl094888

Modeling, simulation & projection of climate change, effects

The Impacts of Cloud-Radiative Changes on Poleward Atmospheric and Oceanic Energy Transport in a Warmer Climate
Chen et al. Journal of Climate
10.1175/jcli-d-20-0949.1

Tropical and Subtropical Forcing of Future Southern Hemisphere Stationary Wave Changes
Patterson et al. Journal of Climate
10.1175/jcli-d-21-0075.1

Anthropogenic influence on Northern Hemisphere blocking during the winter 1960/1961–2012/2013
Chen et al. Environmental Research Letters
Open Access 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1d0e

Robust Atmospheric River Response to Global Warming in Idealized and Comprehensive Climate Models
Zhang et al. Journal of Climate
10.1175/jcli-d-20-1005.1

Revisiting future extreme precipitation trends in the Mediterranean
Zittis et al. Weather and Climate Extremes
Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100380

Risk changes of compound temperature and precipitation extremes in China under 1.5?°C and 2?°C global warming
Aihaiti et al. Atmospheric Research
10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105838

Projected Land Evaporation and Its Response to Vegetation Greening over China under Multiple Scenarios in the CMIP6 Models
Lu et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
10.1029/2021jg006327

Projected changes to severe thunderstorm environments as a result of twenty-first century warming from RegCM CORDEX-CORE simulations
Glazer et al. Climate Dynamics
10.1007/s00382-020-05439-4

Asymmetric responses of the meridional ocean heat transport to climate warming and cooling in CESM
Li et al. Climate Dynamics
10.1007/s00382-021-05948-w

The Influence of Variability in Meridional Overturning on Global Ocean Circulation
Kamykowski ICES Journal of Marine Science
Open Access pdf 10.1093/icesjms/fst165

Significant contribution of stratospheric water vapor to the poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation in autumn under greenhouse warming
Xia et al. Geophysical Research Letters
10.1029/2021gl094008

Divergent Responses of Summer Precipitation in China to 1.5°C Global Warming in Transient and Stabilized Scenarios
Jiang et al. Earth's Future
Open Access pdf 10.1029/2020ef001832

Future high-resolution El Niño/Southern Oscillation dynamics
Wengel et al. Nature Climate Change
10.1038/s41558-021-01132-4

Future changes in precipitation and temperature over the Yangtze River Basin in China based on CMIP6 GCMs
Yue et al. Atmospheric Research
10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105828

Emergence of robust anthropogenic increase of heat stress-related variables projected from CORDEX-CORE climate simulations
Im et al. Climate Dynamics Climate Dynamics
Open Access 10.1007/s00382-020-05398-w

The CORDEX-Australasia ensemble: evaluation and future projections
Evans et al. Climate Dynamics
10.5194/egusphere-egu21-81

Robust decrease in El Niño/Southern Oscillation amplitude under long-term warming
Callahan et al. Nature Climate Change
10.1038/s41558-021-01099-2

Future changes in sub-seasonal variability of Indian winter precipitation
Midhuna & Dimri International Journal of Climatology
10.1002/joc.7372

An appraisal of seasonal precipitation dynamics over the North-West Himalayan Region under future warming scenarios
Banerjee & Singh International Journal of Climatology
10.1002/joc.7368

Coupled climate–carbon simulations indicate minor global effects of wars and epidemics on atmospheric CO2 between ad 800 and 1850
Pongratz et al. The Holocene
10.1177/0959683610386981

Changes in extreme events over Asia for present and future climate conditions based on a modelling analysis of atmospheric circulation anomalies
Sokhi et al. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s00704-021-03742-6

Advances in climate & climate effects modeling, simulation & projection

Machine learning to optimize climate projection over China with multi-model ensemble simulations
Li et al. Environmental Research Letters
Open Access 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1d0c

(provisional link) Evaluation of extreme precipitation indices over West Africa in CMIP6 models
10.1007/s00382-021-05942-2

The critical effect of subgrid-scale scheme on simulating the climate impacts of deforestation
Wang et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
10.1029/2021jd035133

Assessing mean climate change signals in the global CORDEX-CORE ensemble
Teichmann et al. Climate Dynamics
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s00382-020-05494-x

Bias correction of temperature and precipitation over China for RCM simulations using the QM and QDM methods
Tong et al. Climate Dynamics
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s00382-020-05447-4

A new spatially distributed added value index for regional climate models: the EURO-CORDEX and the CORDEX-CORE highest resolution ensembles
Ciarlo` et al. Climate Dynamics
Open Access 10.1007/s00382-020-05400-5

Causal effect of the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature on the Upper Colorado River Basin spring precipitation
Zhao & Zhang Climate Dynamics
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s00382-021-05944-0

Evaluating Observational Constraints on Intermodel Spread in Cloud, Temperature and Humidity Feedbacks
He et al. Geophysical Research Letters
10.1029/2020gl092309

Cryosphere & climate change

(provisional link) Recent slowdown in the decline of Arctic sea ice volume under increasingly warm atmospheric and oceanic conditions
10.1029/2021GL094780

Downscaling CESM2 in CLM5 to Hindcast Pre-Industrial Equilibrium Line Altitudes for Tropical Mountain Glaciers
Heavens Geophysical Research Letters
Open Access 10.1029/2021gl094071

Melt probabilities and surface temperature trends on the Greenland ice sheet using a Gaussian mixture model
Clarkson et al.
Open Access pdf 10.5194/tc-2021-259

An improved and continuous synchronization of the Greenland ice-core and Hulu Cave U-Th timescales using probabilistic inversion
Muschitiello
Open Access pdf 10.5194/cp-2021-116

Constraining the date of a seasonally ice-free Arctic using a simple model
Bonan et al. Geophysical Research Letters
Open Access pdf 10.1029/2021gl094309

Toward an ice-free mountain range: demise of Pyrenean glaciers during 2011–2020
Vidaller et al. Geophysical Research Letters
10.1029/2021gl094339

Ice-shelf ocean boundary layer dynamics from large-eddy simulations
Begeman et al.
Open Access pdf 10.5194/tc-2021-242

Sea level & climate change

Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels
Tebaldi et al. Nature Climate Change
Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41558-021-01127-1

Four centuries of documentary sources concerning the sea level rise in Venice
Camuffo Climatic Change
10.1007/s10584-021-03196-9

Paleoclimate

Warming-induced northwestward migration of the Asian summer monsoon in the geological past: Evidence from climate simulations and geological reconstructions
Huang et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
10.1029/2021jd035190

Paleocene/Eocene carbon feedbacks triggered by volcanic activity
Kender et al. Nature Communications
Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-021-25536-0

Wetter summers mitigated temperature stress on Rocky Mountain forests during the last interglacial warm period
Berkelhammer et al. Geophysical Research Letters
Open Access 10.1002/essoar.10506740.1

Biology & climate change

Northeastern mountain ponds as sentinels of change: current and emerging research and monitoring in the context of shifting chemistry and climate interactions
Nelson et al. Atmospheric Environment
10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118694

Does root respiration of subtropical Chinese fir seedlings acclimate to seasonal temperature variation or experimental soil warming?
Chen et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Tree Physiology
Open Access 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108612

Vegetation composition modulates the interaction of climate warming and elevated nitrogen deposition on nitrous oxide flux in a boreal peatland
Gong & Wu Global Change Biology
10.1111/gcb.15865

Satellite-derived NDVI underestimates the advancement of alpine vegetation growth over the past three decades
Wang et al. Ecology
10.1002/ecy.3518

Rapid, but limited, zooplankton adaptation to simultaneous warming and acidification
Dam et al. Nature Climate Change
Open Access 10.1038/s41558-021-01131-5

The impact of variable predation risk on stress in snowshoe hares over the cycle in North America’s boreal forest: adjusting to change
Lavergne et al. Oecologia
10.1007/s00442-021-05019-1

Magnitude and mechanisms of nitrogen-mediated responses of tree biomass production to elevated CO2: a global synthesis
Wang & Wang Journal of Ecology
10.1111/1365-2745.13774

Thermal differences between juveniles and adults increased over time in European forest trees
Caron et al. Journal of Ecology
10.1111/1365-2745.13773

CO2, nitrogen deposition and a discontinuous climate response drive water use efficiency in global forests
Adams et al. Nature Communications
Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-021-25365-1

Declining fungal diversity in Arctic freshwaters along a permafrost thaw gradient
Kluge et al. Global Change Biology
Open Access pdf 10.1111/gcb.15852

Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming
Benedetti et al. Nature Communications
Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-021-25385-x

Increasing Coral Reef Resilience Through Successive Marine Heatwaves
Fox et al. Geophysical Research Letters
Open Access pdf 10.1029/2021gl094128

(provisional link) Phytoplankton and cyanobacteria abundances in mid-21st century lakes depend strongly on future land use and climate projections
10.1111/gcb.15866

Managing Wildlife Disease Under Climate Change
Buttke et al. EcoHealth
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s10393-021-01542-y

GHG sources & sinks, flux, related geochemistry

Anthropogenic climate change: the impact of the global carbon budget
Redlin & Gries Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s00704-021-03764-0

The declining tropical carbon sink
Rammig & Lapola Coble Bloom Nature Climate Change New Phytologist Nature Communications
Open Access 10.1038/s41558-021-01135-1

Methane emissions and methanogenic community investigation from constructed wetlands in Chengdu City
Zhang et al. Urban Climate
10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100956

Phosphorus regulation of methane oxidation in water from ice-covered lakes
Sawakuchi et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Open Access pdf 10.1029/2020jg006190

(provisional link) Public perception and acceptance of negative emission technologies – framing effects in Switzerland
10.1007/s10584-021-03150-9

Towards reconstructing the Arctic atmospheric methane history over the 20th century: measurement and modeling results for the NGRIP firn
Umezawa et al.
Open Access pdf 10.5194/acp-2021-736

Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions
Wiese et al. Climate Policy
Open Access pdf 10.1080/14693062.2021.1969883

Changes in under-ice primary production in the Chukchi Sea from 1988 to 2018
Payne et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
10.1029/2021jc017483

(provisional link) Spatiotemporal dynamics of CO2 gas exchange from headwater mountain streams
10.1029/2021JG006509

Ultraviolet radiation drives emission of climate-relevant gases from marine phytoplankton
McLeod et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Open Access pdf 10.1029/2021jg006345

(provisional link) Identification of potential methane source regions in Europe using δ13CCH4 measurements and trajectory modeling
10.1029/2020JD033963

(provisional link) Sources of nitrous oxide and fate of mineral nitrogen in sub-Arctic permafrost peat soils

Role of river discharge and warming on ocean acidification and pCO2 levels in the Bay of Bengal
Sridevi & Sarma Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Open Access pdf 10.1080/16000889.2021.1971924

High carbon losses from oxygen-limited soils challenge biogeochemical theory and model assumptions
Huang et al. Global Change Biology
10.1111/gcb.15867

Greenhouse gases emissions from riparian wetlands: an example from the Inner Mongolia grassland region in China
Liu et al. Biogeosciences
Open Access pdf 10.5194/bg-18-4855-2021

CO2 removal & mitigation science & engineering

What went wrong? Learning from three decades of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) pilot and demonstration projects
Wang et al. Energy Policy
10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112546

Potential impacts of CO2 leakage on groundwater quality of overlying aquifer at geological carbon sequestration sites: A review and a proposed assessment procedure
Zheng et al. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology
10.1002/ghg.2104

(provisional link) Public perception and acceptance of negative emission technologies – framing effects in Switzerland
10.1007/s10584-021-03150-9

Quantifying the impact of effective stress on changes in elastic wave velocities due to CO2 injection into a depleted carbonate reef
Raziperchikolaee et al. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology
10.1002/ghg.2120

Decarbonization

Barriers to energy transition: A case of Botswana
Maswabi et al. Energy Policy
10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112514

Geoengineering climate

Removing Carbon Dioxide Through Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: Legal Challenges and Opportunities
Gerrard SSRN Electronic Journal
Open Access pdf 10.2139/ssrn.3789914

Black carbon

Importance of Supersaturation in Arctic Black Carbon Simulations
Matsui & Liu Journal of Climate
10.1175/jcli-d-20-0994.1

Aerosols

Decomposing Effective Radiative Forcing due to Aerosol Cloud Interactions by Global Cloud Regimes
Langton et al. Geophysical Research Letters
Open Access 10.1002/essoar.10504093.1

Climate change communications & cognition

Controversy around climate change reports: a case study of Twitter responses to the 2019 IPCC report on land
Sanford et al. Climatic Change
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s10584-021-03182-1

‘Scientists don’t care about truth anymore’: the climate crisis and rejection of science in Canada’s oil country
Haney Environmental Sociology
Open Access pdf 10.1080/23251042.2021.1973656

(provisional link) Competing Crises? Media Coverage and Framing of Climate Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic
10.1080/17524032.2021.1969978

Race/Ethnicity and Climate Change Reporting: Perceptions and Interests of News Personnel's Interest to Cover Climate Change based on Race
Craig et al. Environmental Communication
10.1080/17524032.2021.1967181

Farmer flexibility concerning future rotation planning is affected by the framing of climate predictions
Bane et al. Climate Risk Management
Open Access 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100356

Agronomy, animal husbundry, food production & climate change

Crop-climate model in support of adjusting local ecological calendar in the Taxkorgan, eastern Pamir Plateau
Yang et al. Climatic Change
10.1007/s10584-021-03204-y

Impact of climate change on irrigation water requirement of wheat growth – A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China
Xu et al. Urban Climate
10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100971

Impacts of climate change on agriculture and household welfare in Zambia: an economy-wide analysis
Ngoma et al. Climatic Change
10.1007/s10584-021-03168-z

Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector
Harrison et al. Global Change Biology
Open Access pdf 10.1111/gcb.15816

Farmer flexibility concerning future rotation planning is affected by the framing of climate predictions
Bane et al. Climate Risk Management
Open Access 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100356

Effects of direct heat stress on summer maize and risk assessment
Zhang et al. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
10.1007/s00704-021-03769-9

Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change
Lara-Estrada et al. Regional Environmental Change
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s10113-021-01803-0

Hydrology & climate change

Elevated risk of tropical cyclone precipitation and pluvial flood in Houston under global warming
Zhu et al. Environmental Research Letters
Open Access 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1e3d

Assessing changes in the atmospheric water budget as drivers for precipitation change over two CORDEX-CORE domains
Llopart et al. Climate Dynamics
10.1007/s00382-020-05539-1

Climate change, riverine flood risk and adaptation for the conterminous United States
Wobus et al. Environmental Research Letters
Open Access 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1bd7

Climate change economics

Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay
Franta Environmental Politics
Open Access pdf 10.1080/09644016.2021.1947636

Climate change mitigation public policy research

Policy attributes, perceived impacts, and climate change policy preferences
Swim & Geiger Journal of Environmental Psychology
10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101673

Countries’ commitments to soil organic carbon in Nationally Determined Contributions
Wiese et al. Climate Policy
Open Access pdf 10.1080/14693062.2021.1969883

Climate clubs: politically feasible and desirable?
Falkner et al. Climate Policy
Open Access pdf 10.1080/14693062.2021.1967717

The short-term impact on emissions and federal tax revenue of a carbon tax in the U.S. electricity sector
Carroll & Stevens Energy Policy
10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112526

Seeking a handle on climate change: Examining the comparative effectiveness of energy efficiency improvement and renewable energy production in the United States
Adua et al. Global Environmental Change
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102351

Long-Term Climate Treaties with a Refunding Club
Gersbach et al. Environmental and Resource Economics
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s10640-021-00597-3

Climate change adaptation & adaptation public policy research

Is flood resilience planning improving? A longitudinal analysis of networks of plans in Boston and Fort Lauderdale
Woodruff et al. Climate Risk Management
Open Access 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100354

(provisional link) Summertime in the City: Improving Community Resilience to Extreme Summertime Heat in Northern Manhattan

Framing resilience
Yan Nature Climate Change
Open Access 10.1038/s41558-021-01149-9

Shaping urbanization to achieve communities resilient to floods
Hemmati et al. Environmental Research Letters
Open Access 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1e3c

Climate change, riverine flood risk and adaptation for the conterminous United States
Wobus et al. Environmental Research Letters
Open Access 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1bd7

Climate change impacts on human health

Climatic Factors Influencing the Anthrax Outbreak of 2016 in Siberia, Russia
Ezhova et al. EcoHealth
Open Access pdf 10.1007/s10393-021-01549-5

Adaptive risk management strategies for governments under future climate and socioeconomic change: An application to riverine flood risk at the global level
Hochrainer-Stigler et al. Environmental Science & Policy
Open Access 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.010

West Nile virus is predicted to be more geographically widespread in New York State and Connecticut under future climate change
Keyel et al. Global Change Biology
10.1111/gcb.15842

Other

Large uncertainties in trends of energy demand for heating and cooling under climate change
Deroubaix et al. Nature Communications
Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-021-25504-8

Declining Oxygen Level as an Emerging Concern to Global Cities
Wei et al. Environmental Science & Technology
Open Access 10.1021/acs.est.1c00553

Informed opinion, nudges & major initiatives

Introduction to the special issue: Compound weather and climate events
Zscheischler et al. Weather and Climate Extremes
Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100381

Opinion: The power and promise of improved climate data infrastructure
Gurney & Shepson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Open Access pdf 10.1073/pnas.2114115118

Predicting climate anomalies: A real challenge
Wang et al. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters
Open Access 10.1016/j.aosl.2021.100115

 


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  1. I don't suppose anyone has seen or commented on Dan Pangburn 2021? —  

    LINK

    'During the time period when water vapor (WV) and carbon dioxide (CO2) have been accurately measured worldwide, 1988-now, WV increase has been responsible for the human contribution to Global Warming/Climate Change with no significant net contribution from CO2."

     

    If so, a link would be much appreciated.  

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    [RH] Embedded link.

  2. Citizenschallenge @1 :  Dan Pangburn was a frequent commenter in the earlier years of SkS.  His track record for valid science is distinctly poor.

    I would be grateful to learn from you if Pangburn has come up with anything useful.   The importance of water vapor as a strong positive feedback on CO2's greenhouse effect is something well known to climate scientists for about a century.   So I would be interested to hear if Pangburn is making a valuable contribution to current knowledge.   It would be a surprise if he were ~ but anything is possible!  But from the little info you have given, it sounds very unlikely.

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  3. citizenschallenge @1,

    You could also ask whether "anybody has seen or commented on":-

    Pangburn (2017)

    "Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and other trace greenhouse gases have little if any effect on climate."

    Pangham (2015)

    "Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has had no significant effect on average global temperature."

    Pangham (2014)

    "CO2 has no significant effect on climate."

    "Long term prediction of average global temperatures depends substantially on long term prediction of sunspot numbers"

    Pangburn (2008)

    "The conclusion from all this is that carbon dioxide change does NOT cause significant climate change."

    The lack of interest in Pangburn's work is evident in the total absence of reference to it within the scientific literature. But perhaps you ask why this lack of interest? Or what is the nature of the nonsense being so persistently peddled by Pangburn?

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  4. MA Rodger @3 :

    Thank you for that info.   I had seen comments years ago on SkS by Dan Pangburn, and comments by him in more recent years on several blogs.  His scientific ideas show an overlap of crackpot & delusional aspects.   An interesting psychopathology ~ but far from rare in the sphere of climate denialism.

    Citizenschallenge ~  some googling quickly showed you having a minor clash with Pangburn nearly a decade ago.   With your inquiry at #1 , was it based on the discovery of something valid in "Pangburn 2021" ??   Had you any reason to suppose that a Stuffed Leopard would change its spots . . . or lose its stuffing?

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  5. @citizenschallenge

    If you scroll down 2 days in the comments, you could have read the answer.

    https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?a=141&p=2#137656

    Pangburn talking about water vapor as a GHG looking to the atmosphere ?  UUUUPS - he couldn`t see any clouds ??? -— Blind & stupid - like other deniers.

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  6. Eclectic @4,

    Pangborn presents a long list of purile misconceptions which, if you are not familiar with the subject, can take a while to rattle out into the light-of-day.

    Thus in his latest masterpiece of nonsense linked above we have in Section 1 para 1:-

    "The radiation energy travels from ghg molecule to ghg molecule (or between surface and ghg) at the speed of light but dwells in each molecule for a few microseconds making the molecule warmer. The dwell time is also called the relaxation time and cumulative dwell time is what causes the GHE"

    It is not "a few microseconds" but on average "many microseconds" and, as atmospheric molecules do collide every "few microseconds", the radiation energy is almost always transferred from the flapping CO2 molecule to other atmospheric molecules. The far-more-numerous atmospheric collisions can set CO2 flapping as well as robbing the energy from a flapping one. As collisions are a product of temperature and and very very numerous, they are overwhelmingly responsible for setting CO2 molecules flapping, often enough for some of the flapping CO2 molecules to radiate-away the equivalent energy trapped from radiation by the CO2. The "cumulative dwell time" of individual molecues is certainly not "what causes the GHE."

    Section 1 para 2 is a bit garbled. The main error is in saying radiation escapes into space "Increasingly with altitude" . There is a quite distinct threshold altitude below which no radiation can escape, and above which all radiation can escape. The temperature of this threshold altitude (which varies with wavelength and GHG concentrations) is what determines how much radiation cools the planet.

    Section 1 para 3 arrives at a 1200-to-one ratio for surface/tropopause H2O levels which lookes like a back-of-fag-packet calculation as it is far too low.

    Section 2 talks of a "notch and 'hash'"  in the Earth's IR spectrum. (I assume notch=hash.) The notches in his Fig 1 are is actually due to the higher altitudes where CO2 & O3 are still absorbing their radation but where H2O is so defuse it is letting it out into space. The CO2 "notch" is not 18Wm^-1 but actually about 30Wm^-2, so causing directly about +8ºC of GH-effect and it is only through such planet-wide warming that the warming is "shared with (redirected to) WV molecules which radiate it to space" because it is now warmer at the altitudes where radiation can escape to space because higher temperatures mean more flapping molecules.

    And so the fool goes on. Pure nonsense through and through.

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  7. Thank you for those responses

    @2 Eclectic at 15:03 PM on 5 September, 2021

    Response: I don't think he has, but he did leave a comment at one of my old blog posts.  He seemed rather proud of himself and needed to share with anyone who gave a fart and guess I'm on his list.

    @3 MA Rodger at 18:31 PM on 5 September, 2021

    MA writes: "Or what is the nature of the nonsense being so persistently peddled by Pangburn?"

    Thank you for sharing that list, Pangburn is nothing if not persistent.

    That is the question: the specific nature of his nonsense, shrunk down to a simple concise list.

    @4 Eclectic at 20:32 PM on 5 September, 2021 (to your question)

    Nope I don't expect the leopard to change his spot - I was looking for specifics regarding his claim, since his comment to me has me thinking about using it to build another post around - one that lays out his specific deceptions.  

    And though I have been proactively engaged and learning about climate science for over half century, I'm still not a scientist, so continue turning to them for my meat and potatoes so to speak.  They do a wonderful job of predigesting the data making it so much easier to digest.

    @5 coolmaster at 23:36 PM on 5 September, 2021, your's was the one disappointing comment though I very much appreciate your link - that will be helpful!  The snark I can handle, it's the vague cutzy inside riddles that drive me up a wall.  I'm a simple straightforward guy, looking for straightforward answers, be they information or insults, tell me what's on your mind, don't make me guess.  Just say'n.

    @6 MA Rodger at 22:40 PM on 6 September, 2021

    Badabing, badabang!!!  The jackpot comment.  Except for the time to work on it, I now have the materials at hand for creating that post, once I can carve out the time.

     

    Thank you all !

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  8. MA Roger (Eclectic & coolmaster - it was an excellent link you shared)  I'm assuming you folks have no objection to being quoted and this thread cited?  

    "back-of-fag-packet calculation" ???? so that's even smaller than a back of cocktail napkin calculation.

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  9. The "????" was supposed to be a laughing smilie.   ;-)

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  10. citizenschallenge@7

    ...your's was the one disappointing comment...

    life is hard - and then you die

    If you are a simple straightforward guy, looking for simple answers - just read my comments of the last week. 

    You will find an alternative climate protection strategy.

    A concept to stop sea level rise - and global warming.

    It is so simple and straightforward that mostly nobody understands. ????

     

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  11. Coolmaster:

    I have responded to your claim of an "alternate climate protection strategy" on the thread where you made the claim.

    https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?a=141&p=2#137680

    Spolier alert: you are wrong.

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